Canberra, July 9 (IANS) India and Australia on Thursday agreed to enhance information sharing on regional terrorist threats, including terrorist entities and individuals, while exploring greater cooperation to combat violent extremism and terrorism across emerging technologies, terror financing, critical infrastructure, crowded spaces, the maritime domain, and online radicalisation.”We commit to increase information sharing on terrorist threats in our region, including entities and individuals, …
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New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Highlighting the ongoing humanitarian assistance cooperation with Afghanistan, India on Friday expressed commitment to supporting Kabul through aid and development projects. “We had strongly condemned the airstrikes that happened from Pakistan into Afghanistan, in which several civilian lives, including women and children were lost. We had offered our condolences on the passing away of precious lives and we had also at the same time reiterated our strong support for the …
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) India has dispatched urgent humanitarian assistance to earthquake-hit Venezuela under “Operation Amistad”, as part of its disaster relief response efforts, following a series of powerful earthquakes that have caused widespread devastation in the South American nation. Announcing the development, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar posted on X, “Indian assistance reaches Venezuela. Confident that the Field Hospital Unit, relief supplies, medicines & medical equ…
Kabul, April 14 (IANS) India on Tuesday delivered 13 tonnes of BCG vaccines and related dry material to support Afghanistan’s child immunisation programme to fight Tuberculosis (TB). In a post on X, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated, “India delivers 13 tonnes of BCG vaccines and related dry material to Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health to augment Afghanistan’s child immunisation programme against tuberculosis.”On April 5, India sent humanitarian assis…
United Nations, Feb 26 (IANS) Some 6.5 million people, or about a third of Somalia’s population, will face crisis levels of hunger through March, an increase of 1.7 million since January, UN officials warned. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday at the UN headquarters via video link, World Food Programme (WFP) Director of Emergency Preparedness and Response Ross Smith said the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report for Somalia, released on Tuesday, confirmed fears that t…
Gangtok, Feb 23 (IANS) The Indian Army has carried out a swift rescue operation under ‘Operation Himrahat’ in the high-altitude areas of East Sikkim, safely evacuating 46 stranded tourists following heavy snowfall and extreme weather conditions, officials said on Monday. According to defence officials, sudden and intense snowfall accompanied by sub-zero temperatures on February 22 disrupted normal movement in several vulnerable stretches of East Sikkim, leaving multiple tourist vehicles stranded…